Do Your Best to Come to Me Quickly for SATB choir a cappella was written shortly after Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt for Help yet with a very different aesthetic: it was to be a short and carefully controlled composition focusing on the simple beauty of the choral sound without the complexities of Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt for Help. The text is simple and taken from the fourth chapter of the second letter of Paul to Timothy. It was written c. AD 66-67 as Paul awaited his execution, abandoned by his friends and imprisoned in a Roman jail. His loniness was one of his strongest reasons for writing, and it was this that this piece attempts to capture.

Do your best to come to me quickly.
For Demas has deserted me.
Luke alone is with me.
Do your best to come before winter.

The music itself if generally pandiatonic and centered on A-flat/f-minor. It is a slow, harmonically-oriented piece with a mostly homophonic texture. Carefully planned proportions give a very gentle arch and flow to the piece as a whole as well as within smaller sections.

The translations of the text used are the New International Version and English Standard Version.